linux-kernel - Re: Correct types for mod_devicetable.h (was: Re: m68k build failure)

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:12:59 +0100
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct types for mod_devicetable.h (was: Re: m68k build
 failure)

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:11:12 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:08:18PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > 
> > This still requires a bit of maintenance to set up a kerneltypes.h for every arch.
> 
> Better doing this work once than fixing similar issues again and again.
> 

Agreed. But it raises the bar quite a bit to get this ready for upstream.

> > It also means we have to be very careful that gcc's internal alignment settings matched the ones in our header.
> 
> There's nothing "gcc internal" about struct alignment - remember that 
> any change in struct alignment would change our userspace ABI.
> 

Oh? I would have guessed that everything going to and from userspace would be packed. Should probably consider myself lucky I have do deal with few such interactions. :)

Rgds
Pierre

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